Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table

Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-17T21:21:45Z

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 03:09:33PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 12/17/25 3:03 PM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Mario Limonciello (AMD) wrote:
> > > Type 40 entries (Additional information) are summarized in section
> > > 7.41 as part of the SMBIOS specification. Save these entries when
> > > decoding the DMI tables.
> > >
> >
> > Why can't an interested user just use dmidecode?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yazen
>
> They could. The reason for doing it in this series is the same reason for
> the one that we did the S5 bit.
>
> It shows up in the logs, you can tie regressions to the AGESA version at
> specifically at the time of the failure if they've done BIOS updates since
> then.

Yes, right. Sorry, I mixed this up with the debugfs patch.

We need to save it here so the init code can find it.

But why do we need a debugfs entry for it?

Thanks,
Yazen